5 quotes
Property can exist only under the guardianship of the State.
The Expansion of England (1883)
The chief forces which hold a community together and cause it to constitute one State are three, common nationality, common religion, and common interest.
The Expansion of England (1883)
We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.
The Expansion of England (1883)
Commerce in itself may favour peace, but when commerce is artificially shut out by a decree of Government from some promising territory, then commerce just as naturally favours war.
The Expansion of England (1883)
It is a favourite maxim of mine that history, while it should be scientific in its method, should pursue a practical object. That is, it should not merely gratify the reader's curiosity about the past, but modify his view of the present and his forecast of the future
The Expansion of England (1883)